Sunday, October 28, 2012

I love you more than you will ever know.Well you might know one day when you have a
kid, but maybe you won’t because maybe a father’s love is different from a
mother’s love, and I’ll never know that.But just know that I love you to pieces and that will never change.

That being said, this is the last newsletter.You’re six now, and I feel like you will
probably remember most everything that happens to you from here on out, or at
least the important things.These newsletters
are what you have instead of a baby book.I apologize profusely that when you have a kid and you ask when you got
your first tooth or first slept through the night or whatever else may be the
question at hand, I will not have a concise book to pull out and show you all
your statistical data…but if you cull through the pages of the 6 years of books
where I wrote you a letter each month, you will eventually find the important
information that you are looking for to find out that yes indeed, your baby is
normal.

You are riding your bike this month without training
wheels.You did it on the first
try.For your birthday, your daddy
bought you another, bigger bike.It’s
taking some getting used to, but you’re riding it without training wheels as
well. I didn’t know it would make me so
proud to see you do that, but it does.It makes me so unbelievably proud of you.

You’re having a bit of trouble adjusting to school.Your behavior sucks.I know why it sucks, you’re bored.But even as an adult, there are times you get
bored, but you still have to sit quietly and listen, even if you already know
what they’re talking about or don’t see the point of the whole thing.I’m sorry, it’s part of life.As an adult they call them meetings.On the plus side, the ladies in extended day
are extremely impressed with you.They
had a challenge where that gave all the kids spaghetti and marshmallows and
told them to build a tower or pyramid.You built a pyramid, you did it first, so you won and everyone else
copied your design.And your
Kindergarten teacher specifically asked if we had filled out the paperwork to
allow them to test you for the gifted and talented program.

We had the annual company weekend.It was rainy and drizzly, but you still got
to play in the pools a bit.We also
played board games and you had a blast with the childcare people while I went
to the grown up party.When I went to
get you at the end of the night you were passed out on the floor in front of
the movie.I picked you up and carried you
all the way back to the room.I dropped
you on the bed and you didn’t move until I started poking you at 9 am the next
morning because I was STARVING and really wanted to go have breakfast.

This month, Mike returned to Alaska from Afghanistan.You’re getting to talk to him a lot more,
since the time difference from here to Alaska is much closer than the time
difference to Afghanistan.And it’s nice
to see the two of you bonding.We sent
Matthew a birthday present earlier this month and Michael and Matthew also sent
you a birthday present (2 beyblades) which you ABSOLUTELY LOVE and have played
with every day since receiving them. Matthew has also called to talk to you a
couple of times.I hope when we meet
them in person this December that we can foster a good relationship between the
three of you for the years to come, if for no other reason than as of December
they will be your brothers.

You had your first ever super commercialized birthday party
this year.I finally relented and you
had a party at Chuck E Cheese.It was
actually easier and cheaper for me than having your party at the house,
although a bit less satisfying.I didn’t
get to talk to everyone, and I spent a good half the party looking for our
party host who disappeared for 20 minutes at a time – specifically at the times
when we had a new kid arrive and I needed her to give me their tokens.Anyway, you had an absolute blast and got to
go in the ticket blaster where they blew tickets all around and you grabbed as
many as you could.That’s was what you
really wanted, out of everything offered, it was the ticket blaster.I made a deal with you at the end of the
party that because there were only two ticket counting machines working we
would go back Monday night and you could spend your left over 42 tokens and
we’d cash in your tickets then.

This is the part I would normally write the things I want
you to work on for the next month.But
this is the last letter, so I have a bit more time to cover.I want you to always try your hardest in
everything you do.I want you to see the
good in people.I want you to treat
others the way you would want to be treated.I want you to listen.I want you
to continue to love learning.I want you
to learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others if you can.I want you to know that you are surrounded by
people who love you and care about you and we all want to see you succeed.I am doing my very best to raise you to be a
productive citizen, and caring and loving adult, who is capable of solving
problems and making good decisions and sometimes that means letting you learn
lessons the hard way and endure the consequences of your actions.I am and always will be here for you, you
will always be able to count on me, but that doesn’t mean I will always bail
you out – sometimes you’re going to have to bail yourself out while I stand by
and cheer you on.

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kristine.wood@sbcglobal.net

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